In the 1960’s, the Weather Underground was a set of sublime signs (black people with guns) that triggered in white people without enough imagination to see beyond their fear. The same signs became beautiful symbols in the minds of other people because they inspired hope. But the weather underground was,Continue Reading
Man is by nature a social animal; an individual who is unsocial naturally and not accidentally is either beneath our notice or more than human. Society is something that precedes the individual. Anyone who either cannot lead the common life or is so self-sufficient as not to need to, andContinue Reading
There is a passage in Plato, when Crito is trying to convince Socrates to flee Athens, when suddenly the Laws of State become personified and argue why Socrates ought to stay and suffer his sentence of death. The Laws of State argue simply and truly that were he to flee,Continue Reading